Truck



(No Model.)

D.- BAKENHUS & A. MUESELER.

TRUCK.

NO. 418,838. Patented Jan. 7, 1890.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Q'DIETRIOH BAKENHUS AND ALBERT MUESELER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TRUCK.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,838, dated January '7, 1890.

Application filed October l5, 1889f Serial No. 327,062. (No model.)

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that we, DIETRICH BAKENHUS and ALBERT MUESELER, citizens of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in the form of wagon known by the term truck, and, more particularly stated, to the form of such wagon around and-near the lateral edges of the platform of which openings or sockets are provided at intervals to receive and sustain stakes, which thus answer the purpose of the sides of a wagon-box to confine the load. In wagons of the aforesaid class the means commonly employed to shield the load is a cover of some suitable Waterproof material, such as rubber, canvas, or other cloth. The upper ends of the stakes over which the cover is adjusted tend to wear through the cover by the weight of the latter against the ends and the instability of the stakes in their sockets, which causes them to be oscillated against the cover by the jarring of the truck while in motion.

The object of our improvement is to provide improved means for preventing injury from the upper ends of the stakes to the cover, and means which shall also tend to render the stakes more stable and uniform in their movements under the effect of jarring of the moving truck, and to difiuse the strain in an outward direction of the load against the stakes the more equally throughout the series of stakes on the several sides of the truck platform at which they may be provided.

- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View inside elevation of a truck provided with our improvement and showing a cover adjusted to extend partly over the series of stakes; Fig. 2, a view in side elevation of the upper end portion of a stake provided with our improvement, the tubular connecting medium between stakes being shown. as broken away; and Fig. 3, a section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2, viewed in the direction of the arrows, and showing the securing-bolts in elevation.

A is a stake, which may be of ordinary or any suitable form and material. Toward the upper end of the stake we apply to each of two opposite sides brace-pieces r and 1", secured together, as by the bolts q, and extending beyond the end of the stake, where each terminates in a jaw 19, concaved on its inner purpose and for the further purposes of thelightness and strength it affords we prefer to employ metal tubing, gas-pipe being the most desirable kind. The tubing thus extends along the tops of the stakes and is clamped between the jaws p thereof. If ever it is required to remove a stake or different stakes, as in case of breakage, necessitating replacing with a new one for each so broken, this may be readily accomplished; without having to that end to disturb the tubular connection, by merely loosening the bolts securing the brace-pieces r and 1"", to permit separation thereof from the stake to be removed and from the tube 72, and inserting, to take its place, another stake provided with the jaws, which are then caused to embrace the tube and are clamped together by securing them with the bolts q and their nuts. As will be seen, the connecting medium between the stakes so unites the latter as to prevent their being independently movable, thereby increasing their resistance to outward pressure against them and preventing the tendency to wear the cover D, which is supported on the smooth or rounded surfaces afforded by the clamps and tubes on the upper ends of the stakes.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A truck-stake A, provided with a clamp E, comprising brace-pieces r and r, secured to the stake and terminating beyond one end of the same at opposite sides thereof in jaws p, hollowed out on their opposing inner sursurfaces, extendingfroin brace-pieces rand r, faces, and thereby adapted to clamp between removably secured to opposite sides of the them and conform or substantially conform stake, and a metal tube 41, extending across 15 to a connecting medium-such as the tube the ends of the stakes on each side of the 5 ntransversely thereof, and roundedon their truck and clamped between the jaws, subexternal surfaces, substantially as and for stnntially as and for the purpose set forth.

the purpose set forth. DIETRICH BAKENHUS 2.111 combination with a truck C, stakes ALBERT MUES'ET ER A at the opposite sides of the truck-platform, J I0 surmounted at their upper ends by clamps E, In presence 0feach comprising jaws p, concave on their XV. I-I. DYRENFORTH,

inner sides and rounded on their external M. J. FROST. 

